Our Current Mission Areas & Focus Areas
Mission Area: Nuclear Deterrence
Develop and apply the scientific insight and engineering prowess to assure the safety, security and reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile in an ever-changing threat environment and enable the modernization and transformation of the NNSA production enterprise. Key operations include:
- Annual assessment
- Stockpile modernization
- Advanced science and technology
- NNSA enterprise agility and resilience
Mission Focus Area: Stockpile and Enterprise Transformation
Increases responsiveness and resilience of the Nuclear Security Enterprise by improving key technology, resources and skills across the enterprise; advances experimental, design and computational capabilities; and leverages collaborative networks within the NSE, academia and industry.
Mission Area: Threat Preparedness and Response
Provide unique capabilities and innovative solutions to stem proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction, understand capabilities and anticipate adversarial actions and support response and consequence mitigation of natural and man-made threats. Key operations include:
- Nuclear counterproliferation and counterterrorism
- Pandemic response tools and biosecurity
- Forensic science
- All-source intelligence
Mission Focus Area: Bio Resilience
Integrates LLNL’s unique computing and experimental capabilities to identify, characterize and counter natural and man-made biological threats at dramatically reduced timescales.
Mission Area: Energy Security
Advance understanding of Earth system dynamics, develop technologies to secure domestic energy production and environmental sustainability and provide reliable and resilient energy transport and distribution in response to evolving energy demand and resource availability. Key areas include:
- High-fidelity Earth system simulations at spatial and temporal scales necessary for planning, risk assessment and adaptation
- Infrastructure resilience and evolution, e.g., electrical grid resilience and capacity expansion
- Carbon management, land-use practices and quantitative assessments to promote environmental resilience and a sustainable bioeconomy
- Advanced materials and manufacturing for carbon management and new energy technologies
Mission Focus Area: Earth System Resilience
Use and development of: 1) Earth system model simulations and complementary datasets to assess physical threats to the various sectors comprising national security, e.g., energy and water system resilience and security, factors influencing global conflict, land-use and environmental sustainability; and 2) systems analyses and new materials to enhance carbon management and sustainable land-use practices.
Mission Area: Multi-Domain Deterrence
Create a global strategic advantage through innovative technologies, strategies and analyses to bolster escalatory and defensive capabilities across the full spectrum of domains including strategic defense, conventional strike, space, cyber and technology competition.
- Emerging technology R&D and assessments
- Strategic defense and conventional strike
- Space/cyber security
- Cognitive simulation/artificial intelligence
Mission Focus Area: Strategic Advantage
Uses integrated science and technology to win the strategic competition.
